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Bowles Mint
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Bowles’s mint is a large-leaved British garden mint, often sterile and non-flowering, prized for big aromatic leaves in mint sauce and new potatoes. A favourite of UK kitchen gardens. Flavour is round spearmint-like. Excellent for jelly and sauce.
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DriedFreshGarnishInfusedSauceTeaTorn
Traits
CulinaryLargeLarge LeafNon Flowering OftenRobustSweetUK Favourite
History
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E.A. Bowles popularised this large culinary mint clone.
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Bowles mint became a standard British garden mint.
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NHS and allotment gardens widely grew Bowles mint.
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Chefs still preferred Bowles for traditional mint sauce.